Mission: Urban

Summer vacation is officially over.  School starts tomorrow.  Malachi will be going into 1st grade, Elijah and Ellie will be in Kindergarten and Emerson will be in pre-school.  They are all going to the same school and the three younger one’s school day will be from 1pm to 5:30pm each day, Malachi’s goes to 6pm.  [...]

I’ve been reading the book”Let the Nations Be Glad” by John Piper. I read this today and it was the perfect challenge and encouragement.
Pages 100-101: “It is true that we should bear testimony to the supremacy of God’s goodness by receiving his good gifts with thanksgiving(1 Tim. 4:3).  But for many Christians this has become [...]

Every Saturday(well, except when it rains and the dirt streets are completely muddy) we’ve been visiting the villa on Saturday mornings to share a story about Jesus, some songs and some snacks.  The kids LOVE the clowns(Brian and Nate) and love that we come to hang out and spend time with them.  Rich, Brian, Nate, [...]

We’ve been praying for our upstairs neighbors for many months and praying for opportunities to talk with them(we just finished our winter and didn’t see them much at all).  It’s nice and warm today and the boys were playing outside.  The last two weeks the little four year old girl upstairs will come out on [...]

I never realized how impatient I was firstly, until I had kids…..and secondly, until I moved to another country.  God has used this journey to grow me in ways I didn’t know I needed to be grown.  He’s teaching me patience in waiting for things like hot water, heat, running water, electricity, our internet to [...]

One of the best things that can happen to you when you are new in a community is to get invited to a birthday party.    Our family attended our first today for the son of Pablo, a guy who sought us out because he wanted to practice English.  We met him in March at his [...]

We’ve been in Argentina for one month!  We’ve been missing you all and really wish we had internet access at our house.  Please pray for the pole to be installed by the phone company, we can’t have a phone or internet until thats in place.
This week has been a very exciting and somewhat sad week.  [...]

Today has been crazy…..as are most days, but I still don’t now how it will all end.  We were up this morning and over to my brother and sister-in-laws house to wait for the letter from the Argentine GBC inviting us to AR.  I left to take two of the boys to three doctor appointments.  [...]

Well, not exactly, but we have learned a lot this year.  Please don’t be surprised that we aren’t fluent, it really does take a few years to really understand and use all the ends and outs of another language.  Personally, this has been a very stretching year.  It was more difficult than I expected to [...]

It has begun…….I don’t like it,  but it happens when you move from one country to another. The anxiousness of the unknown is almost unbearable at times…….these are only a few of the questions that run through my head……will all our stuff fit in our boxes for the flight back to the states, will we [...]